Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, the last member of the Obama administration’s original economic team, said he doesn’t expect to remain in office if the president is re-elected.

“He’s not going to ask me to stay on, I’m pretty confident,” Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg Television yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina. “I’m confident he’ll be president. But I’m also confident he’s going to have the privilege of having another secretary of the Treasury.”

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In the interview, Geithner said he would do “something else” after leaving the Treasury Department, without specifying what that would be. In August, an administration official said Geithner would stay in his job at least through this year’s presidential election.

Erskine Bowles, chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, and Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota could be among the potential candidates to succeed Geithner, said Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.

Of the two names mentioned in the OP as replacements, I would suggest that he choose Bowles instead of Conrad since North Dakota is still a red state and could very well cause the Democrats to unnecessarily lose a seat in the Senate which if it remains this close, could be the difference between Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

My earlier comment notwithstanding, I do think that the site would be better off if Inks left his position. (The fact that the village idiot has dropped in to express his support for him only confirms this.)

Of the two names mentioned in the OP as replacements, I would suggest that he choose Bowles instead of Conrad since North Dakota is still a red state and could very well cause the Democrats to unnecessarily lose a seat in the Senate which if it remains this close, could be the difference between Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Conrad announced a whole year ago that he was retiring from the Senate at the end of his present term (which expires in 2012), so the seat will probably go Republican anyway, and Conrad would be available anyway. Either Bowles or Conrad would be good choices, I think. Whatever the circumstances, it's best Geithner leaves anyway.

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Of the two names mentioned in the OP as replacements, I would suggest that he choose Bowles instead of Conrad since North Dakota is still a red state and could very well cause the Democrats to unnecessarily lose a seat in the Senate which if it remains this close, could be the difference between Majority Leader Harry Reid and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Conrad announced a whole year ago that he was retiring from the Senate at the end of his present term (which expires in 2012), so the seat will probably go Republican anyway, and Conrad would be available anyway. Either Bowles or Conrad would be good choices, I think. Whatever the circumstances, it's best Geithner leaves anyway.

I wasn't aware that Sen. Conrad is going to retire. It makes sense then that his name would come up.

My earlier comment notwithstanding, I do think that the site would be better off if Inks left his position. (The fact that the village idiot has dropped in to express his support for him only confirms this.)

I would very much presume he informed Obama of his decision to retire, and also to make it public, before he went on tv with it. Whether he had the President's consent for the latter, though... that doesn't necessarily follow.

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